Non-refillable bottle.



No. 703,944. I Patented luly I, |902.

C. F. MITCHELL. y NUN-REFILLABLE BDTTLE.

(Application tiled June 4, 1901.)

(No model.)

lllll CHARLES FREDRIOK MITCHELL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No'.v"70-3,944, dated July 1, 1902.

, Application filed June 4,1901. Serial No. 63,069i' (No model.)

T0 LZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES FREDRICK MITCHELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Baltimore, in the Stateof Maryland, have made certain new 'and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in'non-refillable bottles, and has for an object to provide an improved construction of non-refillable bottle in the use of which it will be necessary to break oif the en'd of the neck of the bottle before the contents can be poured off; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinationof parts,as will' be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings,Figure lis a sectional view of a portion of a bottle embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on about line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is av-top plarfofA the bottle. Fig. et is a detail longitudinal section of the neck of the bottle. Fig. 5 isa detailsectional View of the sealing-plug with the attached locking-bails, and Fig. 6 is adetail side view 0f the sealing-plug.

The bottle A may be of anysuitable design or capacity and is provided wththe neck B, which is formed with` the main portion C and the end portion D, which is designed to be broken from the portion C when itis desired to dispense the contents of the bottle. At the juncture of the sections D and O, I provide, within the neck a groove or chamber E,`open ing into the neck of the bottle and adapted to receive the bails on the sealing-plug, as pres? ently described. I provide surrounding such',

chamber E a weakened point at F, so the part D can be readily broken off the end of the neck. The sealing-plug I may be of any suitable material and form fitted to the neck 0f the bottle and preferably consists of a body I', having a groove I2 to receive a rubber 0r other gasket and provided near its upper end with a groove I3 for the locking-bails J, from which groove I3 extends an opening or socket I4 for the ends J of the bails J. These bails J are preferably resilient, and they and the plug I are so formed that the bails may be turned before the plugispushed home to a position opposite the' groove I3, so they may be pressed into such groove as the plug is pushed home until the bails come opposite the groove or chamber E,'when. they will spring outward into such chambenasV shown in Fig. 2, and operate to lock the plug in place.

Now in order todispense the contents of the bottle it will benecessary to break the end section D off the body-section C of the neck, exposing the bails J,`which may then be turned to the position shownin Fig. 5 and employed as handles in drawing the sealing-plug out of the neck of the bottle. It will be noticed that access to the contents of the bottle can only be had by breaking the neck of the bottle, as before described, thus lnutilating the bottle so it cannot be wrongfully reused.

To guard the neck of the bottle, I provide the guard-bails Kand L, which are provided with the cross-bars extending over the neck of the bottle `and interlocked at L', as shown in Figs. 2 and 3,7andl are provided with the depending arms extending below the weakened pointF of neck andhaving at their lower ends inturned arms K2 and L2, which extend beneath-f the shoulder M, such bails operating to protectV the lateral chamber and upper p0rtion of the neck of the bottle, as will be understood from Figs. 1 and 3. Vhen desired, the ends of the arms K2 and L2 may be prolonged circurnferentially beneath the shoulder M, as shown at-K3 and L3 in Fig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.` 1l. A non-reillable bottle substantially as described having itswneckcomposed of upper and lower sectionsweakened at the juncture ofsuch sections and provided internally with a lateral grooveor chamber, the plug fitting in said neck andprovided with a groove for the locking-bails and with a socket leading from such groovefor the ends of the bails, and the locking-bails having their ends seat ed in said sockets and arranged to be compressed entirely within the outer circle of the plug and to spring outwardly into locking engagement within the lateral groove orchamber within the neck substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the bottle, the plug having circumferential grooves and provided at the ends thereof with sockets, and the bails having their body portions fitted to be incased in the grooves of the plug and their ends inturned and fitting in all positions of the bails ICO in the sockets at the ends of said grooves, substantially as set forth.

3. A non-rellable bottle comprising the neck the plug fitted to close said neck and the locking-hails carried by the plug and pivotally connected at their ends therewith whereby they may be adjusted to lock the plug in the bottle-neck or to position to serve as handles for withdrawing the plug substantially zo as set forth.

4:. The combination of the bottle having an 

